Improvement in breech-loading fire-arms



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Breach-Loading Fire-Arms. Y N0. 142,396. c Patented September2,1873.

UN'rrED STATES ATENT JFFIE.;

DANIEL HUG, OF NEW YORK, N.` Y., ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND W'ILLlAM HQSPEER, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN BREECH-LOADING FIRE-ARMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 142,396, dated September 2, 1873; application filed January 6, 1873.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, DANIEL HUG, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Fire-Arm, of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1` is a longitudinal section of that portion of a nre-arm vin which my improvements are contained. Fig.2 is a transverse section of the same on the line C C, Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a side view, partly in section, of the same, showing modifications in the arrangement ot1 parts.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The invention consists in the improvement of fire-arms, as hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawing, the letter A represents the breech portion of the barrel of a tire-arm. B is the stock of the same, and C is the breech-block. This-breech-block is, at a, pivoted to the cheek-pieces b of the stock, and has its face so shaped, as indicated in Fig. 1, that the same will entirely close the breech end of the barrel when applied a-gainst the same, in manner shown by full lines in Fig. 1. D is the handle portion of the breechblock, pivoted at d to the upper portion ofthe block C, and straddling the backward narrow projection ofthe same, to constitute a lateral, as well as backward, continuation thereof. This handle portion is, when the breech-block is closed against the barrel, swung up with its back part, to be fitted against the tail-piece e of the stock, and thus to hold the breech-block locked against the barrel and secure against all; longitudinal backward pressure. Then the breech-block is to be swung back to clear the barrel, for the introduction of 'a cartridge or the removal of a cartrid ge-sh ell, the handlepiece D is first swung on the pivot d, so as to bring its back part clear of and below the tailpiece c, and is then, by being farther swung back, caused to carry the breech-block entirely back into the position indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1. From the front of the breechblock projects a spring or rounded ear, m, into which is suspended a downward projection, n,

of a slide, H, whichslide works under the breech end of the barrel. At its back end the slide H carries a semicircular projection or bridge, 0, which, when said slide is moved forward, tits a recess in the breech of the barrel, and, in fact, becomes part of such barrel.

This bridge or semicircular support o is, when the back end of the cartridge, and causes the same to enter the recess of the barrel, in the manner shown in Fig. 1, the bridge o following such motion. and fitting the back part of the barrehas indicated. The upper edge ot' the bridge o is recessed or rabbeted to receive the iange of the head of the cartridge, as shown.

The forward motion of the breech-block is not followed by the hammer, because the same is retained by the trigger bearing against the tooth j, and, therefore, the parts will, after the described motion, all be in the position indicated by full lines in Fig. 1, and the hammer will be cocked. As soon as the trigger is touched to liberate the tooth j, the mainspring F will exert its power upon thc hammer, and-will violently throw the same forward against the pin y, causing said pin to puncture, strike, or enter the back end of the cartridge, and to explode the same. The projection j' of the handle-piece D is then taken hold of and drawn back to carry` the breech-block back wit-h it, and, in so doing, the spring m drawsthe slide H back with it, thus causing the cartridge-shell to be withdrawn from the barrel, the elastic movement of the spring giving the necessary jerk or swing to the shell,which will cause it to become ejected from the lock. A

new cartridge can then be applied upon the Death the barrel, combined as shown, to eX- 1 bridge, and the operation repeated in the tract cartridges and throw them clear of the manner described. Y gun, as Well as support the new one7 in the Having thus 'described my invention, I manner described.

elaim- DANIEL HUG.

The pivoted breech-block, having the spring-hook connected therewith and the eartridgeextractor arranged centrally be- Witnesses:

A. V. BRIEsEN, PAUL GOEPEL. 

